Invisible Swarm III: over

CUnknown · #1 August 7th, 2005, 03:09 PM

"That was but an accident, obviously, and if you had a problem with it you should have said so; your way of sneaking and stabbing isn't manly at all! You big pussy, you've stabbed me thrice already... I wonder if I learned yet?"

I'd rather use it as an excuse.

It's a good one. You shouldn't have attacked Pangea, you did know that I was going to attack there at some point. Pangea only having like 2 provinces left at that point made it very likely I was going there that turn.

Anyway, it's good you did it, otherwise I wouldn't have an excuse!

Jurri · #2 August 10th, 2005, 12:15 PM

Ugh, what happened to my scripts in Pranda!? Where was the Astral Tempest and what the F did the gargoyles do... Argh, Chris, if you still insist on being the less powerful, you can kiss my booty!

Is there a particular reason for putting your Soul Contracts (that you seem to have more than a few) on werewolves? Aren't they really fragile if a horror attacks, leastways compared to f. ex. the master smiths?

Also, why did my commander retreat from an assassination attempt? (That traitor prince.) That was claimed to have been fixed in 2.16, so is this a recurrence or what?

A terrible turn indeed for the Lurker in the Deeps! Aku, die off already so that Pasha can help me against the invincible superpower!

Jurri · #3 August 10th, 2005, 12:25 PM

Oh, hey, on another look I seem to have offed the poor sap who made the Earth Blood Well! So it's not all bad.

CUnknown · #4 August 10th, 2005, 03:46 PM

Yeah, Jurri... you've been killing me with those Ashen Angels. I hope they've been hurting you, as well, when they decide to turn on you (how often does that happen, by the way?).

I put some Soul Contracts on werewolves because I don't mind losing them if they die. I wouldn't want to lose a Master Smith. And with my Drain dominion, I don't think horrors are a big worry (I haven't been attacked by one yet).

I'm not sure about the assassination attempt retreat thing. I thought that was fixed, too.

Looking at that turn, Jurri, I couldn't decide if it was worse for you or for me. Obviously, my army is unstoppable by anything you have on the field right now. But, that's just one army, taking 1 province a turn. I can probably do a little better than that, but that's a slow way to go.

I don't have time at this point. Every turn Pasha waits to attack Jurri, he's massing up huge piles of gems. My gem income is now severely reduced since Deep Blood Well went down (lucky shot!). I'll take a few more provinces of Jurri's, maybe push him from Boron's lands, but when he pulls out his endgame army, we are all in for a world of hurt. My endgame armies are already out. My cards are on the table.

Pasha, I must insist you attack this horrible menace immediately!

PashaDawg · #5 August 10th, 2005, 08:24 PM

Hello CUnknown:

The Council of Philosophers has given explicit instructions that the Arco military machine must complete it's police action in Abysia before any further activities. I have presented your postestations to the Council in earnest, but my pleas fell on deaf ears. Furthermore, the Council is now on recess, and His Luminescence is unwilling to use his special constitutional powers to circumvent the Council's customary role in declaring war on behalf of the Dominion. Sorry. I tried. Really!

Pasha

PashaDawg · #6 August 10th, 2005, 09:25 PM

Hello - I just played my turn, but something went strange when I ended the turn. I can't tell, but is the server down?

Pasha

CUnknown · #7 August 10th, 2005, 10:51 PM

No, it's not down. You can't connect?

Jurri · #8 August 11th, 2005, 12:31 PM

If the target province has a lot of commanders, I think the chance for the Ashen Angel to turn on the sender is low. I haven't used them extensively ever, since they are so expensive, but maybe I'll know better after this game.

A great point about the drain scale! I never realized that horrors and the scale are connected.

The retreat bug: considering that there was also the discrepancy in the playback, is it possible that you are running an older version and playing your turns using the selfsame version and thus not seeing it? A lot of my tactics involve retreat, so I'd like this fixed, if possible

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Looking at that turn, Jurri, I couldn't decide if it was worse for you or for me.

Heh, so you're comparing losing ~400 gems and almost 30 turns worth of specialized mage-time in items and commanders to losing an 80 gem global, that already paid itself back three times over? Dude, there's no huge pile of gems, I'm sure you won't even notice the loss of the Well with all your earthblood stones, you'll undoubtedly take well more than Boron's lands (you already have an unbreakable army heading for my central holdings), and there's no endgame army, except amassing in Ulm. Go on, tell me that multitude of devils isn't an endgame army, I dare you!

Your lies have won over the spineless Aku and Boron, but I'm sure Pasha will give you a taste of your own medicine with an Arcoscephalean dagger in your hunched back! Or rather, in your stomach, since he's no pathological backstabber, unlike some

Just ask yourself how good a comparison is a country that has had only one nation attack it during the whole of the game (the brave Pasha)and a nation that has been ganged on twice. I don't know about your strategies, but when I'm ganged on, it dang well shows; when I'm not, it shows too. I find it ridiculous what you and Boron have repeated for twenty turns, that you, who have 70+ provinces at your use, and I, who have about 50, could be at a even nearly same level of power. Much less so that I would be winning!

Dude, you're a great Ulm-player and your diplomacy is obviously second to none (looking at the cowed Aku and Boron), but if you manage to lie Pasha into attacking me in this situation my hat will truly be off to you!

CUnknown · #9 August 11th, 2005, 11:18 PM

"The retreat bug: considering that there was also the discrepancy in the playback, is it possible that you are running an older version and playing your turns using the selfsame version and thus not seeing it? A lot of my tactics involve retreat, so I'd like this fixed, if possible"

How can I fix it? I'm running 2.16, what version are you running?

Jurri, all I can say is that I am losing more provinces to you a turn than my army is taking. One army can't beat you, you have too many SCs that are viable on their own.

Pasha--if you don't agree to help in the war, you have to at least give me access to Jurri's other land provinces. I need province 54 from you, please?

Jurri · #10 August 12th, 2005, 02:03 PM

I guess it's some re-occuring weirdness, then, with the retreat-bug. Oh, well, I'll just have to live with it.

I count at least 4 perfectly capable armies (one of 'em underwater) which is on par with my numbers of SCs. (Speaking of, how do you like them gargoyles? I think they are very good, but damn hard to make and expensive.) And of course a totally ridiculous amount of wolves! (Just how many do you have? Well over a thousand, surely.)